Dressmaker&#39;s skirt-gage.



JEROME TRAUNER, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

DRESSMAKERS SKIRT-GAGE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 3, 1907.

Application filed December 27,1906. Serial No. 349,615.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, .lnnoMn TRAUNER, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city and county of San Francisco and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Improvement in DressmakersSkirttfages, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive andeffective device for the use of the dressmaker or ladies tailtn' tosimplify and reduce the work of measuring and determining the length ofa dress-skirt and the distance of the bottom of the same from theground.

This device, to which I have given the name of a skirt-gage fordress-makers use, consists in a relatively short post or standardprovided with a foot or extended base to support; the standard inupright position upon the ground, and having a narrow slot runningtln'ough it from the bottom to, or nearly to, the top; amovablechalk-holder consii ing of a chalk-clamp on one end, a bar or partextending through the slot in the standard and capable of moving up anddown therein; and on the opposite end a binding-screw for fixing the barat any given point in the said slot at which it may be set; and agraduated scale on the standard along one side of the slot: all ashereinafter described and pointed out in the claim at the end of thisspecification.

The construction and operation of my improv d device are explained atlength in the following descrip tion; reference being had therein to theaccompanying drawing in Which Figure l isa perspective view of myinvention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation on an enlarged scale. Fi 3 is ahorizontal cross-section on the line :z;:t, Fig. 2.

Referring to the several parts of the device by letter, 0 indicates thestandard; I) the slot; (1 the foot or base; (Z the ch a] k-clamp; and ethe screw by which the clamp is fixed at any point along the slot.

The standard is preferably formed by fixing two relativel y narrow barsor posts at a short distance apart and parallel with each other upon afoot or horizontally set bar of proper dimensions in length and width tofurnish the required stability and hold the standard upright. The twouprights are joined together at the top and the sides are usually facedwith thin strips of metal f, on one of which is marked the graduationsof the scale in inches and fractional parts thereof.

The chalk-clamp is provided with a flat shank 7 fitted to slide up anddown in the slot; and on one end it has a movable jaw having aclamp-screw it working in a screw-threaded hole in the shank. On theopposite end of the shank a binding-screw working in a threaded hole inthe shank is arranged to confine the clamp in the slot by bringingshoulder is firmly against the face of the standard and thus hold theclamp in position by friction. The skirtage as thus constructed is usedby placing a piece of chalk, orothermarking-means, inthe clamping-jawsd. and then fixing the clamp at the desired point on the scale "m; Theperson on whom the skirt is being fitted stands in a natural position.while the operator moves the gage along the floor with the chalktouching the skirt at frequent intervals or continuously as the gage iscaused to make the circuit of the figure, until the distance from thefloor upward to the point of the chalk in the clamp is noted aroundthecircumference of the skirt. The line thus marked upon the skirt willobviously determine the length of the skirt at all points.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters Patent is In a skirt gage, the combination of two uprightseparated posts arranged in parallel fixed relation to each other andadapted to form a slot between them, a base for supporting the saidposts, an adjustable chalk clamp having a shank slidable in said slot,and a binding screw in the end of the shank for holding the chalk clampin its adjusted positions.

In witness that 1 claim the foregoing as my invention I have hereuntosigned my name in the presence olf two subscribing witnesses.

Jnnonn 'rnAuNrm.

Witnesses IIUoo K. ASHER, l lnwnnn I OsnouN.

